Icones piscium, or, Plates of rare fishes
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- Publication date
- 1843
- Topics
- Rare fishes, Fishes, Pictorial works, Fishes -- Australia, Fishes -- Australia -- Pictorial works
- Publisher
- London : R. & J.E. Taylor
- Collection
- biodiversity
- Contributor
- Museums Victoria
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 102.9M
8 pages, 5 leaves of colour plates : 33 cm
The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the first fascicle of an intended larger work on Australian fish which was never continued. Folio, with 5 striking original hand colouring plates; 8 pages of the text unopened; some very faint marks, a handsome copy in the original printed paper wrappers, manuscript correction; housed in a clamshell case
On cover: [Part I. Price 10s., Four Coloured Plates.]. Manuscript correction of "Four" to "Five" Coloured Plates
"First fasciculus - Australian fish"--Page 4
First separately published work on Australian fishes, featuring fish caught on HMS Beagle
"Lieut. Emery's drawings."
Includes bibliographical references
The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the first fascicle of an intended larger work on Australian fish which was never continued. Folio, with 5 striking original hand colouring plates; 8 pages of the text unopened; some very faint marks, a handsome copy in the original printed paper wrappers, manuscript correction; housed in a clamshell case
On cover: [Part I. Price 10s., Four Coloured Plates.]. Manuscript correction of "Four" to "Five" Coloured Plates
"First fasciculus - Australian fish"--Page 4
First separately published work on Australian fishes, featuring fish caught on HMS Beagle
"Lieut. Emery's drawings."
Includes bibliographical references
- Abstract
- The first monograph on Australian fish and the only monograph with handcoloured plates of Australian fish. This is also the first fascicle of an intended larger work on Australian fish which was never continued. Folio, with 5 striking original hand colouring plates; 8 pages of the text unopened; some very faint marks, a handsome copy in the original printed paper wrappers, manuscript correction; housed in a clamshell case.
- Addeddate
- 2024-12-24 13:49:11
- Associated-names
- Emery, James, died 1947, illustrator
- Call number
- cones-Piscium
- Call-number
- cones-Piscium
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Genre
- bibliography
- Identifier
- iconespisciumpl00rich
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/s2wbm4fm05c
- Identifier-bib
- cones-Piscium
- Ocr
- tesseract 5.3.0-6-g76ae
- Ocr_detected_lang
- en
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- 1.0000
- Ocr_detected_script
- Latin
- Ocr_detected_script_conf
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- Page_number_confidence
- 24
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- Pages
- 32
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- Possible copyright status
- Public domain. The BHL considers that this work is no longer under copyright protection.
- Ppi
- 378
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 50530654
- Year
- 1843
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